In what could quench the thirst of billions of people in the future
researchers have discovered our plant’s largest water reservoir 640 km beneath
our feet bound up in rock deep in the earth’s mantle.
Researchers from north western university and university of new mexio have
found deep packets of magma locked beneath north
America a likely signature of the presence e of water at these depths
This water is not in a form familiar to us it is not liquid ice or
vapour.
This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the
minerals in the mantle rock
The discovery suggests water
from the earth’s surface can be driven to such great depths by plate tectonics.
Eventually causing partial melting of the rocks found
Deep in the mantle We are
finally seeing evidence for a whole earth water cycle that may help explain
the vast amount of liquid water on the
surface of our habitable planet
scientists have been looking for
this missing deep water for decades explained
geophysicist Steve Jacobsen
from northwestern university .
Scientists have long speculated that water trapped in a rocky layer of
the earth’s mantle locate between the
lower mantle and upper mantle.
Jacobsen and seismologist Brandon Schmandt
from university of New Mexico provided that there may be water in this area of
the mantle known as the transition zone regional scale
The
findings converged to produce evidence that melting may occur about 640 km deep
in the earth IANS.
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